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[WP] You, a renowned scientist, invented technology to listen to any moment in history. This audio has become the standard for criminal cases. The problem is when you listen in to the death of your closest friend it gets the details all wrong. You know this because you are their murderer. | It was a great irony that the very technology John and I invented would be pivotal in determining the cause of his death. At least, that’s what the Newspapers reported. In reality, the result was almost inevitable, set in stone from the moment we invented the beautiful machine that is Post Mortem Radio.
I use the w... | “Linda!” Carlos shouted, pacing frantically through his lab. It was all wrong, every part of it. He ran the calculations in his head, reran them again, fed them through his terminal to triple check. She was so slow, why was she so slow, today of all days?
“Linda, seriously! I need you down here!”
“Coming!” she yelled... | 2021-03-28T08:36:51 | 2021-03-28T08:18:08 | 252 | 143 |
[WP] Write a romantic comedy. Difficulty: both lovers are emotionally mature and have excellent communication skills | *Was this it?*
Ahmed let out a deep sigh. As the CEO of Jhelum's #1 stamp factory, he was the wet dream of every Pakistani mother. Just the last week he had been approached by 14 of them. To be sure, some of their daughters were quite nice. But they all seemed to miss something. Something he couldn't quite grasp.
"Yo... | “So how did you two lovebirds meet?” Sian asked, breaking the silence with a playful smirk. She knew full well how the young couple before her had met but she wanted to embarrass them in front of the group after what they had just made her do. Moira’s burning cheeks proved testament to just that. Satisfied with her que... | 2016-09-21T00:51:58 | 2016-09-21T00:31:47 | 549 | 90 |
[WP] Atlantis existed, and its people were technology advanced beyond our understanding. It's true they sank into the sea, but they did so purposely. You have just discovered the reason why, and must hide your findings for mankind's safety. | Captain looked at the gigantic underwater city, glowing brightly behind the force field. His submarine was floating still, just near the edge of the enormous bubble, and he was looking at it through the window of his cockpit.
The city looked like it was made out of gold. There was no texture to the buildings just pure... | Dr. Trina Freeman stared at the black abyss of the deep ocean.
She had fought hard through stereotypes and preconceptions. Bigotry had weighed on her like a yoke all her life. A black woman with a strong southern accent put her at immediate discreditation with most established science committees. But after 30 years h... | 2016-04-17T19:53:31 | 2016-04-17T18:54:25 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You start working in a nursing home, you have a resident diagnosed with late stage dementia. They ramble about their life experiences, from building pyramids to seeing Jesus crucified to watching fights at the Roman Colosseum. 20 years pass, you are now chief nurse, and they haven't aged a bit. | 10 years. It took you 10 years before you realised. You stared at the old woman. Clearly, she was someone later in life. If you had to guess, which given the amount of elderly people you’d been around, you’d gotten pretty good at, she was maybe 75. You’d always liked her tales. They seemed creative, immersive. She had ... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Come now, Nikolas." I wheeled the old man down the hall, stopping for just a second to adjust the blanket in his lap. I'd been watching over him for nigh on twenty years now, since I was just a young woman myself, till now.
He'd been there for the better part of my life now. And in the last twent... | 2019-06-11T23:23:54 | 2019-06-11T23:18:30 | 303 | 138 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | My first kill was a complete accident. I was working in the kitchen of *Le Franke*, the restaurant I cooked in. I was chopping some veggies for a dish when I felt a tap on my shoulder and a whisper in my ear. Startled, I whipped around only to find my knife stuck in the gut of my co-worker.
He looked down, then into ... | FADE IN:
INT. A CLOTHING STORE - DAY
*A bell above the shop's door rings as a young man walks through it. This is ALFORD. He looks to be about twenty-five years old, though his elegant clothing seems to be about a hundred years out-of-date.*
**WELDON:** (*O.S.*) Good morning! Make yourself comfortable, I won't be a ... | 2016-10-23T20:27:10 | 2016-10-23T19:45:15 | 287 | 71 |
[WP] Write a story about this pic that made the front page of reddit
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Lg5VR
artist name: Jinho Bae | On the edge of myth and legend, the forgotten sleeps. Its bones lie ignored by time, its ashes blown away. The mountains form its bed; the clouds mark its tomb. Its name lost to the days before the moon.
It rests unknown to the life it sought to create or to destroy. The flock may roost, but they do not see. Naught is... | An old man travels the road once a year with his faithful travel companion. It's a long and hard journey. As the years go by the travel has become more difficult and takes twice as long as it did when he was a man of twenty.
The man takes a long hard look at his long ago triumph. He turns to his old friend the dog by ... | 2017-11-29T22:37:25 | 2017-11-29T20:24:45 | 79 | 46 |
[WP] Your twin is the Chosen One, born with powerful abilities. But you were born with none. Because they were born gifted, your twin took everything from you as they bathed in the spotlight. Your anger drove you to become better, working hard to rival your twin, yet they call YOU the villain.
**EDIT** : Apparently th... | Slane, my brother. My identical, twin brother. Identical, of course, in looks. In skill however, I happened to have the short, nay, nonexistent end of the stick. We had our talents tested at 3 years old. Slane topped the potential in strength, intelligence, magic, sociability, and health. The elders of the clan were e... | **"A frisbee! A fucking frisbee!"**
I overturn another table sending accounting documents flying. "I go to the park to throw a frisbee to myself and suddenly I am being yelled at like I just launched a nuke!" I sigh and roll the nearest chair over and collapse into it."Next thing that I hear, that 'crack team' of his ... | 2020-01-01T06:43:03 | 2020-01-01T06:40:36 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You run an agency of time travelers who are dispatched to break the hearts of famous singers through out their lives and inspire their timeless music. | "I quit." Gary exclaimed when he returned from his mission.
His boss, Stacey was fairly confused as this was her first employee to just up and quit. This was everyone's dream job, going back in time to break someone's heart, just to return to a song from that artist. Some people called it an art of their own.
The coo... | I couldn't believe it was her.
Looking at her in the flesh was...was stunning to say the least. Her jet black hair, twinkling eyes and hourglass figure would make any man look twice. But her voice...her voice. It seemed as if the choirs of heaven had lost a singer, and she now resided in Tara's voice-box. In the futu... | 2016-11-22T09:25:44 | 2016-11-22T05:51:23 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You, the owner of an outrageously successful tech startup, are invited to an exclusive club/society for the world's wealthiest people. You realize that they are all actually dragons, and they assume you are one too. | "It was clever of you to use the Chinese zodiac, we haven't had an earth dragon among us in a long time. You earth types have always been at the forefront of new technologies and we have great expectations for you."
Looking around I was finally beginning to understand what, until now, I had not been able to place as u... | The limousine came to a stop. The mansion was in the middle of nowhere. The driveway was illuminated with torches.
*This should be interesting.*
Sophie was expecting weird. Her invitation was delivered by a man in chain mail. No address or GPS, just a hand drawn map.
She climbed the stairs and was about to kn... | 2020-07-02T12:46:21 | 2020-07-02T11:11:36 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is the Lockpicking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is something very special. You see, the other day, an old buddy of mine needed help getting into a safe. Not just any safe, but the main safe in the local banking office. Needless to say, the police didn't like that idea very much, and long story short, I'm ... | The lockpocking lawyer gets to the gates. For a place that holds souls eternally, the gate seemed to have quite an easy lock to pick. So he got out his tools and got to it.
He was aware that he was originally sent somewhere else. He didn’t know why he was originally sent somewhere else. He didn’t care that he was ori... | 2021-03-17T07:35:05 | 2021-03-17T06:44:37 | 836 | 252 |
[WP] You've figured out how to hack real life. As a sniper in the military, one of your team just noticed you fired three consecutive shots from your bolt-action rifle without ever chambering a new round. They're asking how you're doing that... | "172 confirmed extreme long range kills, 0 bullets fired. I figured it out in basic, I closed the chamber before saying something to Sam, when I looked back I was convinced I had already loaded a round. I was convinced it was loaded. I was convinced when I pulled the trigger I would hit the target. And I did, the best ... | “Magic,” snickered Brad as he turned back to his scope. Salt tinged wind blew all about the team as the ocean waves crashed against the cliff face below them. The two men lay down, studying the target on the boat way out on the waves.
“No seriously, Brad,” demanded Troy, who had crouched walked over to Brad’s positi... | 2021-11-09T12:50:50 | 2021-11-09T12:06:29 | 172 | 76 |
[WP] You find a genie lamp where the genie offers you unlimited wishes. The catch is that you must answer a mathematical question that continues to get progressively harder for every wish you make. If you answer the question wrong, every wish you made will be reversed with negative consequences. | "So you're saying I can wish for anything, right?"
"Anything. You'll just have to answer a simple math question for each wish."
Bullshit. I could see the bullshit in this Genie's eyes. There was no way it would be this easy.
"Fine. My first wish is that I don't have to answer any math questions you ask me after I ma... | In a sense, getting mathematics right is what determines how everyone else's life goes too, so I am in no way shape or form in a unique position.
Nor am I unable to be emphathized with. (That's something I need to keep reminding myself of these days.)
If I could graph it out for you without feeling too scared, the pl... | 2017-06-18T06:29:50 | 2017-06-17T22:34:52 | 63 | 30 |
[WP] You, a wildlife photographer, fall into the ice while making a documentary. As you fade into frozen oblivion, you feel a gentle touch on your shoulder. You wake to hundreds of them. They bow. They sing for the dying. They raise their tusks in salute. Heaven is run by the walruses. | *they sing in bubbly voices with a bouncing beat reminiscent of so many Disney songs*
Welcome now to heaven, sir!
We're glad you're here, though you've no fur.
We've watched you with great interest;
We love your posts on Pinterest:
Walruses cuter than cats,
Walruses with funny hats,
A walrus rising from the se... | *The lake is clear, frozen over by crystallized snowflakes. For those who knew the earth well - for those who hoped and breathed her the same way she hoped and breathed them - the sounds of crashing waves could be heard under the vibration of walking footprints.*
*And if you were her child - if the earth claimed you a... | 2021-01-07T17:41:46 | 2021-01-07T17:08:55 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] After you die, you find out that reincarnation is real, however, there is an error and your memories are still intact upon reincarnation. | Aristotle believed that the fetus was ensouled after 40 days - for male embryos, that is. Female ones took 90 days. Ha ha, funny, right? The things people used to believe. Stoicism believed the baby was only ensouled at birth, upon exposure to the outside air. Christians, of course, would have you believe that ensoulme... | I have watched her a lot since I found her again, but I promise myself this will be the last time.
She is 40 years older than me but she is still as beautiful as the day we met. She stands outside her house waving her arms as if she is conducting an orchestra. There is a van in her drive and two men are unloading fur... | 2016-07-19T03:08:40 | 2016-07-19T02:25:40 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | This is the third night in a row I get the same picture. Very little difference in each, at most I'm wearing a different set of PJ's but that **thing** is just sitting there. Watching.
I snap another Polaroid every few minutes, trying to catch where this thing disappears to every night. About two hours later all I c... | I took the picture, smiling inwardly. I wonder how it'll look? I'd only been living there for a few months - I wonder what it had been like 10 years ago? What pictures would be up on the walls? Was the building even 10 years old?
I went to the darkroom, dipping the photo into the chemicals. I'd always enjoyed the proc... | 2016-12-22T04:34:03 | 2016-12-22T03:14:16 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | Jack awoke to find himself strapped to a surgical table. A quick glance around the operating theater, and he began to piece things together. The last thing he remembered was buying a nice enough looking girl a drink at that shitty dive bar, The Last Resort, the night before. As he began to pull at his restraints, the d... | James was sitting in his 3rd hour biology class talking to his crush, Jessica.
All of the sudden, James felt something overcome his body
"Oh no" James shrieked as he sat in his sweat covered chair
He felt a hot luscious liquid trying to escape from his rectal gates
He got up and made a mad dash for the door, but ... | 2016-11-27T11:17:13 | 2016-11-27T10:55:05 | 497 | 10 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | I'd died already.
I look around. I'm in a small rundown apartment. It smells. It's too small. It's too big. It's...empty. There is cracking plaster where my legendary swords are supposed to be. A small TV where my Mythic Artifacts are supposed to be displayed.
An empty chair where Maria should be.
I think I'd alw... | My character in the game, John paused hus game and finally looked up. He was a game character designed by me to look like me. I had spent a lot of money buying every expansion that came out. My house, my room, my stuff, they were all exactly the same as what I had in real life. I had been making my character 'John' pla... | 2018-02-19T08:24:17 | 2018-02-19T07:06:50 | 857 | 14 |
[WP] You are immortal, never age past 20 and were sentenced to 247 years in jail for your crimes. Your release date is tomorrow, the government is nervous and the world is watching. |
'Thanks, Sarah. I'm here outside Isle Elba Prison where we're counting down to the release of The Governor's son, Charlemagne, two-hundred and forty seven years after he was sentenced to imprisonment here for the murder of twenty-five of The Grand Synod in 3073. Charlemagne, the youngest of The Governor's sons, is exp... | After 247 years, you really begin to reflect on who you are. Tomorrow will be the first time I can breath without the pressure of my past weighing down on me. I’m aware of what I’ve done, and I’m aware of my power. If I could take it all back, I would. No one should have the power I have.
It’s warm outside. I’m the on... | 2019-05-14T13:54:02 | 2019-05-14T13:44:53 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] You're a student of music in the 23rd century. This is your A+ essay regarding a famous song from the 21st century, in which you dissected and heavily misinterpreted. | For the thesis I will analyse one of the songs found on the disc recovered from the ruins of old L.A.
Starting with infamous line
"My anaconda don't want none if you aint got buns hun"
The famous giant anaconda snake is a symbol of Brazil. This lyric highlights the tragic brazillian dependance on US aid and shunning... | "Bad Romance," by Lady Gaga, was one of the foremost artistic masterpieces of the 21st century, not for its catchy tune or its insight lyrics, but for its subtle minimalism and purity of construction.
Though many argue that it falls short of the staggering genius that was "Chaccaron Maccaron" by El Mundo, it does h... | 2015-08-16T10:31:31 | 2015-08-16T10:20:58 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] The children were nestled away safe in their beds. You’ve hung their stockings over the fire place. A tree has been set up in a place of prominence. “For the children” you whisper as you place the offering of milk and cookies and began the Santa summing incantation | A fat white dude in his underwear (red) stands in front of you with sleep sticky eyes.
Yawning “I asked you last year to keep in mind time zones. This is just rude. I get the whole kids things and don’t mind coming, but could you not call me In the middle of the night? It’s a long day tomorrow “.
Janet grimaced. ... | Sara having tucked the children in bed and prepared the offering stood in front of the cold fireplace.
She begun the chant to summon Santa Claus the spirit of Christmas and winter solstice.
"Spirit of kindness that signifies the returning of the light I invite you in my home to spread cheer and merriment this cold n... | 2020-12-08T13:41:52 | 2020-12-08T13:35:25 | 58 | 14 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | "I couldn't ask for a better birthday," she said. "Beautiful weather, lush countryside and best of all, a picnic with the man I love."
"Here," he said, as he offered her a scotch egg.
"Wow - homemade?"
He nodded enthusiastically. "Go on, try it."
She bit into the soft layer of breadcrumbs, through the meat and into... | As I opened my eyes at the loud noise, it seemed as if time stopped. The earth stood still.
This tends to be a reoccurring event at night. I hate admitting I have PTSD, but some things are hard to erase. I go through counseling even though all it does is seemingly salt the wound. The love of my wife and best friend..... | 2017-05-31T06:46:24 | 2017-05-31T04:16:34 | 1,067 | 124 |
Writing Prompt: Write from an antagonist's point of view
You can choose your antagonist from a book already written or write a new story with the antagonist as the main character. | Really? Again? How many times do I have to show her I love her. Those blue eyes, golden blonde hair, her incredible fashion sense. Sometimes I really think its me. Sometimes I don't feel good enough. It cant be my hair? I've been told I can be a bit assertive, but you have to be in my position. I mean, I have friends..... | They have no idea what's coming. These people surround me and they think they are so noble and powerful. Feeding the children wants of materialistic items. These people disgust me. They feel as though they can disgrace me and my people? No. Not anymore. I need to make a statement. Should I go through with this? Is this... | 2012-08-08T15:34:38 | 2012-08-08T14:47:01 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A bard is kidnapped by orcs. At first the bard is terrified, however the orcs actually treat the bard with much more respect than any tavern full of drunks ever had. It seems the ability to sing and play instruments is extremely rare amongst orcs but even they love music. | Too many nights I came home, my clothes stained with food and ale from the multitudes of drunken boors of the tavern. Though I made enough to scrape by, not a soul cared for the craft and creativity. But what choice did I have? What other skills could I provide? I was not strong enough to be a hunter or warrior, so wha... | Well, I suppose I should have run. The tightness of this moldy bag stifles my breath. My breath, the gift of song and joy, all I can manage now are gasps. I can hear them grunting in some guttural language. From the belching I assume they took some barrels of beer with them amid the violence and the fire. The Patchy Dr... | 2020-05-13T16:05:21 | 2020-05-13T16:01:01 | 63 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | So he walked into my 3B class, just like anyone else would. Kinda handsome, I guess, but overall pretty ordinary. Until he turned and I caught the number floating over his shoulder.
The big one-O.
I'm pretty sure I made a noise that would make a mouse call me a pussy, and I sweated through my T-shirt in five second... | The rest of the day I quietly followed him, trying to determine his secret. To no avail, nothing out of the ordinary, just some clumsy kid with middling mental capabilities. If he was exceptional in some way he was very good at hiding it.
By Friday I was going nuts. I ducked out as he went to the principals office, ... | 2014-11-29T13:14:54 | 2014-11-29T12:23:17 | 322 | 216 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "Mimic other superpowers?"
"Taken, Number 7."
"Damn, thought that was a creative one..."
"It wasn't. Next choice?"
"Negate other sup-"
The scientist cuts me off. "18. Next?"
I sighed. What's left? Teleportation, mind reading, super strength... I'm sure those are all done. "Control computers with my mind?"
"43. A... | "Welcome to the Super Powers Depot, what can i do for you?" The clerk never looked up from their smart device. They couldn't be any more disinterested in the task at hand yet were still complying with the bare essentials of the minimum wage day laborer.
"My name's John. I was chosen to come pick out a free super powe... | 2022-11-17T10:09:57 | 2022-11-17T07:26:44 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] Finally, you've moved out of your parent's place. Fairly close to your job, reasonable rent due the first of the month and a humble older gentleman for a landlord, what did it matter that a few of the other tenants weren't exactly fully human. | After shifting the last of the boxes, I slid my back down the wall of my new apartment and landed on the carpet with a thud. I looked around the studio apartment with a proud smile: my own place at last. The building I was in used to be a hotel but had been recently converted into an apartment complex.
I heaved mysel... | [Poem]
I'll tell you a story about my new friends,
they are, at my quarter, the other t'nants.
I've seen outlandish things mere words can't describe,
Yet I'll just try, although I'm not a scribe.
The first night I heard a sheer inhuman croak,
it came from another, lower-floor abode.
I went down the stairs in quiverin... | 2019-04-15T02:49:03 | 2019-04-14T22:51:35 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] Upon becoming an adult, everyone is granted a wish. However, whatever they wish for will be doubled next week and quadrupled the week after, continuing every week for the rest of their lives. This process cannot be stopped. | Don't wish for *anything*.
Why? Okay, here's an example: Let's say you wish for a single *atom* of hydrogen.
About 78 weeks later, you've got an entire gram of hydrogen. I know, you're not impressed. Just stay with me here.
About 10 weeks after that, you've got a kilogram.
Well, you might think, this is coming ... | "What is your wish?"
I had thought about this. Every adult getting a wish had seriously affected my life. Everything was plentiful. What would I even need? "What are the rules to this wish?"
"Every week your wish shall be doubled," said the omnipotent Voice ringing in my head. Of course, the voice didn't wait until... | 2017-08-10T10:08:49 | 2017-08-10T08:55:18 | 53 | 36 |
[WP] Write a horror story which takes place in broad daylight or an otherwise well lit setting | Sunburns.
That's what we used to call them. That's all they were, back then. But now, everything is different. Now we shun the outdoors.
It started out innocuously enough. The sunburns got worse. They hurt more, and lasted longer. They developed faster. It got to the point that just the barest hint of sunlight... | It was the third day when the ants found me.
The sun was up, but not too far, though it already burned. The skin on my face was redder than a lobster and cracked like old plaster, and every movement made it burn. I blinked my eyes, though it brought no relief - I hadn't had a drink of water in more than 48 hours, and... | 2013-10-09T17:24:36 | 2013-10-09T16:55:36 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] You are a professional Matchbreaker. The opposite of a matchmaker, you're hired by concerned friends, disapproving parents, jealous exes, desperate nerds, and everyone in between to break up an existing relationship from the shadows. | They say that once upon a time our profession was obscure, and that private individuals would hire one of us to test a single, specific relationship, just like the services of the fire department and the Post Office were once provided by small private groups for specific paying customers.
I don’t know exactly how true... | "This is target. He's becoming a problem. We want him dealt with using a soft measure"
A folder lands on my table. Covered in labels and warnings of it's confidential status, I recognize this as one of the many files the ministry keeps on its citizens loyal and dissident.
"If there's anything you'd like, please let u... | 2021-12-16T17:42:42 | 2021-12-16T16:40:59 | 86 | 63 |
[WP] You're a first year student at Hogwarts, and you're taking a painting class. As you try to animate your first painting ever, things go horribly wrong. | "Kill me!" The painting shrieked in agony.
I knew I was a bad painter but I thought I was pretty spot on with this Picasso. Maybe that was the problem.
The screams became cries as the painting started smashing its head against the invisible window of the paintings borders.
"I can fix you I promise"
The faux Pic... | ---
Okay, I can do this. I know the wand movements, the incantation. All of it.
This painting here of Professor Dumbledore is quite marvelous, and I just can't mess it up! Oh, what if something goes wrong?
I have to be optimistic about this! If I'm not, the spell will go wrong. I can do this.
Oh man, Johnny over he... | 2015-06-26T11:49:51 | 2015-06-26T11:40:42 | 97 | 14 |
[WP] A man single handedly destroyed North Korea. No refugees, no prisoners, he killed all of them.
How did he do it? How did the world react to the massacre? Is he a hero or a true villain? | The man had killed on average 100 people a day. He had long ago lost touch with the true scope of his genocide. The North Korea before his massacre had housed approximately 24.76 million people. The man wondered how he had lived so long. He was now 696 years old, having started his personal crusade at the age of eighte... | I remember being told that doing the right and the wrong thing sometimes can be one in the same. Well, honestly, I think that's a load of bullshit.
It was seven years. Seven long goddamn years of building tensions and building silent fear that made you feel like someone was breathing down your neck every day. I t... | 2014-04-12T14:02:38 | 2014-04-12T13:53:35 | 103 | 14 |
[WP] You are Hestia, the goddess of family and the hearth. On Earth you run a peaceful inn detached from the woes of the world. When war rages and the other gods toy with mortals, you've had enough. It's time to remind them as the first daughter of Cronus, you are the oldest and most powerful god. | The sleeping pebble was known as a rest stop for weary travelers from all walks of life. No matter what side of the pointless war you were on, you would always find a hot meal and bed at the inn. Hestia considered her inn a haven, a place where true peace could develop. No matter what god you fought for, you were alway... | Do you feel that, zos?
Do you remember when we came to earth?
Oh how beautiful it was. It had been so long in the blackness. Do you even remember the blackness? I do. Oh how they worshiped us.
Our father knew his mistake as soon as he birthed me. That was how all of this started.
Are you feeling it, now?
Alrigh... | 2022-02-06T03:49:27 | 2022-02-06T02:57:16 | 956 | 103 |
[WP] A serial killer has abducted you, but says you may go free if you can convince nosleep that you truly need help. The sub is your only contact with the outside world. | 872-52-3381. That's my social security number. It's real too. Seriously, check it. I have a few thousand dollars in my bank account and few thousand more in credit. It's all yours. If you want, you can put me under a mountain of debt I will ever climb out of. But before you do that, please help me.
My name is Alan Sch... | Look, I know most of you are are in your early to mid twenties. I know that you read these sort of things to get a deep sense of wonder in an otherwise listless pit of existence. You want to sometimes believe these stories are true and hell maybe in some alternate universe they are but this one... I'll spare you the cl... | 2017-06-03T17:20:28 | 2017-06-03T17:18:06 | 2,014 | 630 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | Today's the end of The Month. It wasnt surprising but we all knew it was coming. It lasted too long but we didnt want it to seem like it had come too soon. There are 12 of them yet this one was different. It was almost like the rest seemed dull and ugly while this one was meaningful and gave us momentary happiness righ... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T04:51:45 | 5,691 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are the weakest sentient species in the galaxy. Their skin is torn at the slightest pressure, their bones break from a small fall. But as a superplague sweeps the galaxy, it quickly becomes clear that their doctors have a LOT of experience. | Humans are... Squishy. The Kthelbak, covered insect-like in chiton, could rip a human's arm off with little effort, while even the human's engineered hammers would have a tough time cracking that shell.
Humans are weak; a week-old Chisurian could out-lift the strongest humans.
Humans are slow. Gleft aren't the fastes... | This... this may be the final transmission from my species.
I am Geladorg a Kermiriate and the last of us, most likely.
Un the last six solar rotations my species and manymore have been devastated by a plague, a plague so powerful that even the mighty Midoglaghs a powerful race long gone couldnt even fight back, one ... | 2019-04-02T22:46:56 | 2019-04-02T21:33:19 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | We were walking with Ignacio down a side corridor of the commons when we broke the news.
"'Cio," we said, "I took the Zithman test."
"Shit, dude, that's right! How'd that go?"
"I got a zero."
We watched the confusion play across his face for a moment, then he laughed. We grinned at him and carefully pulled our hand... | *SCENE: Dr. Roberts is pacing up and down. Steve Gates, the computer technician, is sheepishly looking into his computer to avoid Dr. Roberts' occasional glares.*
**Dr. Roberts:** *stops pacing, turns to Steve* "What do you mean, integer overflow?"
**Steve Gates:** "Well, a 'byte' of space can only store numbers from... | 2016-08-18T23:46:19 | 2016-08-18T22:59:39 | 910 | 202 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | "Is this some kind of joke?" You ask, barely making any effort to conceal your frustration. You know better than to go off on the first guy you stumble across in the afterlife, but this is growing remarkably tedious.
The man behind the desk doesn't even meet your gaze and seems quite irritated by the disturbance. "I d... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-04T01:11:05 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 640 | 92 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | Glowing blue flames lick the bone-white stone pillars before me, dancing to the silent, eternal song that has kept them alive for endless centuries. The temple I live in is hidden from the world, deep in a humid jungle that keeps all but the bravest away from the secret treasures of fe'lis that were once cradled in the... | When Harry entered the ruins of the ancient temple of Altuz, his flashlight immediately fell upon a poor, old, balding man who stood in the centre of a circle among the ruins. The man's skin was dark brown and crusty, the eyes fiery, and the hair silver.
"Who are you?" Harry asked.
The old man looked up to him. He e... | 2020-12-06T11:01:43 | 2020-12-06T10:50:16 | 170 | 48 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table three times.
Edit - Wow we made the fr... | 'If you can read my mind, slap the table three times.' I think and the girl looks over at me, then slowly, and very deliberately slaps the table. Once. Twice. Three times. Her eyes locked onto mine
'Tap once for yes, twice for no or three times for maybe' I think, immediately tuning out my professor and his inane rambl... | He held his breath, half-choking on the air held within him. Her eyes were locked on his, her dark hair spilling around her face, her body twisted to face him from her seat at the front of the class. Nobody was paying attention to their exchange, other students sliding materials into their bags and making their way out... | 2018-10-27T14:50:58 | 2018-10-27T14:04:56 | 28 | 19 |
[WP]Write a story that isn't scary until the last line is read. | The flowing highways allowed him to travel effortlessly to his destination. He didn't particularly care much about where exactly to get off, but he found a nice-enough looking spot just like any other of the choices destiny could have taken him to. With only what was on his back now, the pudgy thing let himself into th... | It's so cold here in this tundra. The summers are great for farming, but the winters are terrible. My baby, to my right, and I have no food. We ran out of crops since the beginning of winter, and ran out of meat yesterday. I would go hunting for bears and wolves right now, but I don't have a rifle. Without one, taking ... | 2017-06-05T20:52:45 | 2017-06-05T20:15:06 | 78 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity is at war with an alien race that cleverly uses statistical analysis to predict and anticipate our military actions with incredible accuracy. The only way to defeat them is to be unpredictable. | It took us too long to realise.
We first encountered them just under 5 years ago, when we turned up unannounced by warp drive in a star system that was at the edges of their expansion. And we did the most human thing possible. We panicked. As we approached them one our exploration ships let out a warning shot and the ... | 'The aliens were ready to launch their assault on the UN. Within only a few hours, they could destroy New York as we know it. But I have come up with an ingenious plan that could cause more damage to themselves than us. But... you will die doing it, Mr Chairman.'
The man sitting in the chair nervously lifted up his gl... | 2015-04-15T05:25:08 | 2015-04-15T05:12:03 | 324 | 25 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | "Goooooooood evening Kromblas, Wanhti's, and all you cresty, cresty Spleeno's, welcome to the sevens hundred and thirty thousandth annual Intergalactic Olympics!" Brazz Mangoodlian gave the appropriate pause as the massive stadium full of beings from all over the galaxy erupted with applause. Flying cameras whizzed aro... | To Glibs we glued their ship doors shut,
and then in track passed their slow strut,
We won and drank pabst behind their moon
and threw our cans till half passed noon.
Then galactic patrol had told us to stop
so we flew so fast their splooters dropped.
To Jorni Trali's respectful race,
we'd never spit into her f... | 2018-04-28T09:40:41 | 2018-04-28T08:40:01 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] You and God switch places for a day. But I don't want to hear about what you would do; I want to hear about a powerless God's day in your shoes. | The coffee shop was dimly lit and mostly barren. The pitter-patter of shuffling feet and fingers typing on keyboards intertwined themselves into a cacophony of noise. The afternoon sun, an hour or two from setting, fought its way through the mesh blinds to his right. He could smell the couple sitting behind him; musk p... | The alarm clock blared. 5:00am comes quickly and abruptly. I was watching my body fumble in the dark for the cell phone causing this early morning chaos.
He has no idea what he’s in for. I chuckled to myself.
He finally got the phone and turned it off. And laid there. I wondered if he’d ever experienced what ... | 2020-01-14T10:27:52 | 2020-01-14T09:25:53 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] The King is dying and decides to abdicate his throne before he dies. During the coronation ceremony, he places the crown on a servant's head and declares him king, rather than one of his two sons. | His Majesty's chapel erupted. Fred-Lesser was unsure what to make of the boom that shook his ears. All his years raised in the Kingdom's service and he never heard anything quite like it. To poverty, it even made his head feel heavy. And cozy. Sort of... regal feeling. He had to scratch his head, the velvet was startin... | The bright interior of the official throne room was illuminated by the powerful sun shining through the stain glass windows lining the long hall, creating a mighty atmosphere for the change of kings.
Royalty displayed themselves like a wedding party: the two princes on the left and the three princesses on the right. N... | 2016-02-12T16:01:03 | 2016-02-12T13:51:05 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] You saw her in the distance while on a nightly walk, 8 feet tall, 3 eyes like glowing coals, and a crown of horns growing from her head. In other words, gorgeous. | Every night I go on walks, hoping to see whether the town legend was true. A legend of a creature wandering the local forest, discribed to be 8 feet tall, long slender arms like branches on a tree, a face so pale and sickly, silky long ebony black hair, three eyes like glowing embers floating in the winter night, teeth... | The Christmas parade was over. I went by myself this year, since all of my friends decided to spend time with their families. Being a single male at my age was becoming somewhat boring. The humans didn't realize that I, lowly buck, enjoyed walking around the city at night. From what I heard throughout the city in the p... | 2020-11-11T09:38:18 | 2020-11-11T08:53:10 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] the Universe Inc. releases a large patch for their most succesful product, humanity: The Human 1.1. What's in the changelog? | Features removed:
- Bellybuttons.
- Appendix.
- Hormonal imbalances.
- Moodiness during puberty.
Male model adjustments:
- Nipples removed.
- Balding removed.
Female model adjustments:
- Body hair removed.
- Appetites due to monthly maintenance removed.
- Monthly maintenance now only takes four hours.
- Reverts to... | * It was difficult for some humans to see their own stats, which led them to believe they were worse off than they actually were. We have put a HUD into each human's field of view to constantly give them perspective on their current situation.
* It has been observed that some groups are exploiting others in PvP. All P... | 2014-08-19T10:44:55 | 2014-08-19T10:39:34 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | It's been like this longer than anyone can remember. When you turn the age of power, or 16 years into your life, you gain your individual power. Everyone is different, some get rudimentary boring powers that aid office work and some get drafted to become soldiers due to their powers.. more destructive capabilities.
... | Dear Journal:
I turn sixteen in 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I know because I've been awake all night counting the seconds to midnight. Tonight is special and you know why? At midnight I finally Change! I've waited forever but now I finally get a power like everyone else. What do you think it will be, Journal? Will I get... | 2015-01-21T22:56:40 | 2015-01-21T22:26:31 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 158 | 16 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | He was ten at the time of the accident.
Unbeknownst to me, Ben's day began like any other. He woke up one minute before his alarm would ring and raced to turn it off. He always loved to beat the alarm clock, he felt like it set him up to keep winning the rest of the day. He showered quickly, skipping shampoo and only... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T06:23:30 | 2,420 | 197 |
[WP] There is nothing unusual about a man in a business suit carrying a briefcase, rushing off to work. But since he just quickly passed you as you are climbing up Mount Everest in full winter gear, you have questions. | "He--hey! Wait up!", I yelled to the stranger only for him to ignore me.
The cold wind and lack of oxygen in this altitude didn't seem to bother him. What bothered me the most was his lack of struggling coursing pass the deep thick blanket of snow.
"Hey you! He--hey!", I kept yelling trying to keep up, disregardin... | This was supposed to be my life's achievement. We had big projects with Andrew, plans for decades : a home, neighbors, holidays with the family, children... But he couldn't handle the miscarriage, neither could I. He left quietly. I think we talked about it, putting meaningless words on the unexplainable chaos.
Befor... | 2021-01-31T23:20:17 | 2021-01-31T22:53:19 | 100 | 55 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Wh- who are you?" Jennifer asked.
​
Jennifer was alone in her kitchen, making some scrambled eggs when she heard *that* voice. When she turned around, there was a little girl standing by the doorway in front of her with blonde hair and a distinctly red ribbon. She looked just like a doll, wearing a pink d... | As I lay awake in my bed, never once my own thoughts rang through my head, always those of an unfamiliar persons, I toss and turn as the voice rings clear as in my own head, "Turn around.... Did I find you?"
The color in my face drains as I stare at my wardrobe, *Please....dear God say it isn't so....*
"Oh.... It is ... | 2019-09-14T10:27:39 | 2019-09-14T10:23:14 | 111 | 25 |
[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.
Repost, no one responded before.
EDIT: Th... | It was a doomed world, crippled and imprisoned by its own crushing gravity. It was a hopeless cauldron of life, with every promising species exterminated by the inevitable comets and extinction-level events that the third world of Sol pulled into its vast orbit and obliterated in surface impacts.
Had it been the cold,... | Habitable Body 00173, or as its dominant species refers to it, "Earth", has always been sort of a running joke between my colleagues and I.
It's a bit of a paradoxical planet, as although the most sentient life form very closely resembles our own in both physiological and aesthetic aspects (the notable difference bein... | 2016-03-31T17:18:54 | 2016-03-31T16:35:15 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers. | When I was a child I made a mistake. My school had a set of farm animal toys. I loved the donkey. It was less obnoxious than the family of horses and more interesting than the sheep and cows. There were many of those but only one donkey. I played with it every day at every opportunity and sometimes I would put it in my... | First writing prompt: please let me know if I did bad or horrible.
About 70% of lottery winners go broke. Want to know why?
The government, or at least the USA has knowledge of time travelers. After a 20-something year old man won the lottery 3 times in a row, they believed the man to be cheating. After a quick chat,... | 2014-10-30T17:03:02 | 2014-10-30T16:28:14 | 74 | 53 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | “Who is set for execution today?” Mathew polished his blade as Judge Marin set up the death room.
“Edelphis,” Marin responded, “Finally getting rid of that fucker.”
“‘Bout time. I know the King really hated him.” Mathew switched to the next weapon, cleaning it thoroughly.
“Well, he did kidnap the princess. Twice.”... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:48:17 | 129 | 63 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | "I will speak for her."
The Archmage was taken aback. "She must be strong," he said wryly.
His assumption, while misguided, was that the woman's trauma was so terrible that it had left her mute, and that was what made her so powerful. But, as I said, misguided.
I shook my head, and translated the Archmage's words to... | [P1]
It’s been a rough day. Once again, I was not heard when I spoke up months ago. Just as it always goes. I try my best to tell people what I see. But they never listen to me. Now I am packing up my desk because of layoffs. Layoffs that would have been prevented if people had more faith in what I predicted. I should... | 2022-04-26T11:56:52 | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You are a cook in the navy. Everyone thinks you're an idiot, but unbeknownst to them, you are the navy's secret weapon... along with all the other navy cooks. | "Why is this steak so hard?" the customer complained loudly as I bowed by his table. I shamefully replied, "You said you wanted it well done, so I cooked it such that it was done well." The customer, livid yet speechless, turned red as he stared at the mess of a cow on his plate. I kept my apologetic face on the outsid... | They think I'm an idiot, yeah. Oh sure. Oh sure. They think. CUT TO MUSHROOMS SAUTÉING. PEPPERS CHOPPED, SPRAYING INTO LIGHT, THEIR JUICE. All my life, they thought I was. Yeah. Just gotta idiot look they said, just look like an idiot. You know what I see in the mirror? I don't know, I'm thinking about other shit. CUT ... | 2017-07-19T23:27:59 | 2017-07-19T23:25:31 | 64 | 43 |
[FF] Wish for anything in the universe... in 3 words or less. <150 on how the wish turns out | "No black people."
"Wow..." St. Peter actually stepped back from his podium. "That's just... wow."
"So...?"
"Oh... Oh! NO! Are you crazy? I told you it was a test! You really think that's the right answer?"
"I just assumed... because god made us all in his image, that-"
"You're fucking mental! I've never heard a w... | "Come back, please."
She stopped and turned, I looked at her with longing eyes for the love we once had. She shakes her head no and as I screamed for help with tears in my eyes the light engulfs her wonderful figure, and those beautiful legs once again walk away form me.
Then I wake up. | 2013-10-12T10:19:01 | 2013-10-12T06:35:24 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You’re on a passenger on a plane and look out the window. You see Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 flying right there, next to your own flight. Other passengers spot the 2016 missing Indian Air Force Plane as well. You soon realize you’re flying among all the missing planes in history. | There was a time when flying felt like freedom. The first machines, those of the early pioneers, rattled along with little more than bolts and braces - a constant racket of creaking canvas and shaking metal. That gave way to the hot puffs and gargles of engines. Later, the soaring crescendo of jet engines as they reach... | "Test- Testing, is this thing on?"
The voice cuts into the plane like a knife. It is not the voice of our jovial captain, who'd been making friendly remarks all flight. The man speaking to us is a stranger.
Confused murmurs begin, and soon the sense of unease spreads like wildfire on oil. People start turning their... | 2018-08-23T01:20:39 | 2018-08-23T01:18:43 | 140 | 28 |
[WP] You accidentally divide a number by zero on an ancient mechanical calculator. It loops calculations over and over, with no signs of stopping. Centuries later, it produces an output. | "Professor! The calculator just spat out a number for 1/0!"
"Gah! One of the gears must be jammed. I don't think they've lubricated this mechanism since I got my bachelors'."
"So the number it just stopped on isn't some profound answer pertaining to the mysteries of the universe?"
"No, that's nonsense! The dials on ... | The greatest computer in the universe was finished with its task. An entire planet to calculate the question to the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
The galaxy waited with bated breath for the calculation to complete but suddenly a phenomenon was propagating across the computer. Around the globe creatures... | 2017-09-08T11:58:26 | 2017-09-08T08:39:09 | 177 | 85 |
[WP] The gritty realistic R-rated movie adaption of your favourite show as a kid. | He thought he was done. After thirty years of madness fighting crime on the streets, he was finally able to lay down his badge, and looked forward to a quiet retirement. He thought he was finally out for good. But they wouldn't let him rest. They went after his family, and now he's going to make them pay.
"If you're ... | She was running down the halls. "Ha Ha" a voice laughed down the hall. "There's the exit, if I could just get there" Suddenly the floor gave out underneath her, and she broke her legs when she hit the ground. "Ha Ha" The voiced cackled again A large, bloody mouse emerged from the shadows, knife in hand "Ha Ha"
Mick... | 2016-05-13T07:57:00 | 2016-05-13T07:48:07 | 126 | 19 |
[WP] You are a dragon. After moving to your new forest, the local village decides to sacrifice two children to you to ensure you won't attack them. You decide to raise them--and they say you're much nicer than the village. | The children stared up in abject horror. Before them was a living mountain. The people of the village called it the spirit of the woods, though it was only a recent addition. The dragon, Abohr'Kreya, was an old creature. He had lived for time unending and knew many things. He could call down lightning and make the eart... | Salmonface burst through the door, racing across the living room with powerful strokes of her luscious tail.
"Dad, I'm going for a swim!"
"Dressed like that? I don't think so," Tidewing said immediately. He lazily flicked his enormous, spike covered tail to block the front door.
"Oh, come on! You don't even kno... | 2020-04-03T09:24:54 | 2020-04-03T08:34:26 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | I stilled dreamed of seeing.
I think that's why I initially snoozed my alarm clock instead of gasping for joy. But as I rolled back over to look at my wife lying next to me, I did gasp. Not for joy, but out of shock. On the wall behind Kathrine a message had been hastily painted on the wall.
\-DON'T TELL THEM YOU CA... | The blindness passed by some sort of contagion, and by dumb luck I managed to avoid it. I had been out in the cabin in Montana. The cabin I always hated but had acted as my unwitting savior. I wasn't outdoorsy like my dad. After Dad died, Mom wanted to sell the cabin: she wasn't outdoorsy either. Someone had to go... | 2022-10-15T03:24:04 | 2019-08-26T10:55:51 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] When you die, you get one wish - a death wish. Usually people wish for noble things like wealth and happiness for loved ones, or to be remembered fondly. But your wish has Death scratching his skull. | THIS IS NOT JUST A JOB YOU UNDERSTAND.
"I know, but I mean, it's been a rough year, you must have been working overtime."
TIME IS SOMETHING I HAVE IN ABUNDANCE.
"Yeah, sure, but everyone deserves a day off."
It was a puzzling concept. Day off? Humans did it all the time of course, but as the blue glow from deep i... | ”I don't believe I have ever heard that one before.” Death spoke as he cocked his head, face hidden by the cloak.
”Really? Honestly, I’m surprised. It’s been a massive thing this year... so why not?” I say, chuckling softly as I look to the very personification of the end.
“So... you want me to make it that no politi... | 2020-08-09T14:30:56 | 2020-08-09T13:34:48 | 273 | 119 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | I have two siblings. Haven't seen them in a long time. We don't get along. Not since we where little, not since our grandmother died. All those years ago. I loved her, as did they. She was kind, sweet, had a wonderful garden, baked the best cookies, and most of all was always there for us.
She died suddenly in her sle... | The wrinkled elderly woman I called Gran lay lifeless yet peaceful on the sterile bed. Tears were wepted and hearts bled. Then, when the will was to be read, faces hardened and tears dried. The contents were simple. The money was to go to Rick, the house to Linda, and a pack of seeds to me.
Eyes filled with pity came ... | 2020-03-31T07:47:51 | 2020-03-31T07:23:26 | 143 | 58 |
[WP] You have a friend who's an expert in lucid dreaming. One day, they come to you and says they can't tell apart dreams from reality anymore. You tell them that "if this were a dream, you'd be able to fly right in front of me". And that's exactly what they do. | The nature of reality largely varies in its definition by its perception through an individual observer.
Perhaps a man lives in a world that was created by a god, a world full of magic and miracles caught between an everlasting war between deific entities.
Maybe to a woman reality is what was created through years o... | “Chris its 2 motherfucking AM what do you want?” I asked in irritation.
He proceeded to sock me across the face. It wasn’t the first time he’s done it, he had done it twice this week.
“ Damn it man are you sleepwalking again?”
“I can’t tell if this is a dream or reality, you reacted to the pain and I felt it but normal... | 2019-05-12T22:16:30 | 2019-05-12T22:06:00 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] People gain superpowers the day after meeting their soulmate. When a hot young celebrity does so the day after a meet-and-greet, they're desperate to find every person who they even just shook hands with that day. | Beverly McCallister lived life. Parties, cameos in two dozen television shows, a mansion that could have crammed most of the other ninety-nine percent inside--even a fledgling career as a musician, fueled primarily by name recognition as her talent was sorely lacking.
Beverly McCallister had it all. Anything she want... | “God, this stupid fly!” I wasn’t sure how it got in the house, or why it felt the need to be in this room with me when there were quite a few others to choose from, but I was sick of it. I set down my book and got up, prepared to deal with it. After a few seconds of buzzing around the room and me chasing after it like ... | 2020-07-29T07:43:47 | 2020-07-29T06:02:00 | 1,296 | 416 |
[WP] The year is 2125, the first 'World Law' passes. It reads... | "Do not purposefully murder unless legally authorized to by your local government." That's the first law. It's been just a couple of weeks since the entire world was finally encompassed by a single ruling body, and this was the first ever world law that would take precedence over any local ones. Not that any local gove... | 1. No one shall do any violence except in defense of one self or another
2. No one shall be physically punished for any crime that does not physically harm another, nor incarcerated for any crime not involving threat of violence
3. Every one shall be free to express themselves however they choose provided it does not v... | 2015-03-18T16:21:38 | 2015-03-18T14:02:02 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] You were an embryo frozen for over 200 years, until you were finally birthed. At this point, everyone else on Earth has been genetically modified to perfection. You are the last human with flaws. | Imperfection was not what my “parents” predicted the moment the idea of my conception came their senses. But to be fair, a rare occurrence demonstrated throughout the centuries, they could not have predicted what was to come.
Imperfection in the past was a luxury many families could afford two-hundred years ago. They ... | Freckles. That's it. That's why strangers hesitate around you. Hell, just last week a beautiful couple crossed the street just so that they wouldn't be on the same side walk as you.
Kids gawk at you and ask their mommies why your face was dirty. Of course they were blunt. They were kids. "They don't know any better", ... | 2018-03-16T08:49:36 | 2018-03-16T08:21:34 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] You hear a knock on your door. A dark suited man stands with a box. "Congratulations! You've won a lifetime supply of our new frozen meals!" He opens the box, which contains a single, blue lidded tv dinner. You look around. "Where is the rest?" He grins. "This will last the rest of your life." | You open the lid
"Capsules?"
The man grins even more.
"Yup! We just perfected our dehydrated meal capsules. Pour some water on it and toss it in a microwave or oven, and it will turn into a full meal. They're labeled, too, so it won't be a surprise as to what you get."
You raise your eyebrows. "Wow, that sounds coo... | "So what's the catch?" I asked. No visible cameras, no logos, no confetti. Just this man in a suit, with a box. A TV dinner box. Not even one of the good ones, or even a recognizable one. "No catch!" He enthusiastically added, "You were randomly selected to recieve this fully functional prototype of the meals of the fu... | 2020-04-07T01:47:33 | 2020-04-06T23:42:52 | 77 | 53 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | I watched you dance in the rain. It was beautiful. You smiled, I smiled back. Then there was joy. And now, you are still beautiful like a flower.
I watched you dance. In the rain it was beautiful. You smiled. I smiled. Back then there was joy. And now, you are still. Beautiful like a flower. | I looked at him and asked, "What should I never forget?" He put a hand on my shoulder and said, "Hate; what could ever hurt you if you don't love? Also, yourself; then all will be quiet."
I looked at him and asked, "What should I never forget?" He put a hand on my shoulder and said, "Hate what could ever hurt you. If ... | 2015-09-23T10:42:41 | 2015-09-23T06:30:53 | 630 | 83 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 712 | 30 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | I carried a pot in each arm, and was struggling to slide down the muddy banks of the stream, when I heard Youssouf cry out. I turned to look for him, but all I could see was the trickle of water carving through a channel of dirt and rock.
"Yuosouff?" I shouted, "Where are you?"
With my hands full, I tried to walk bac... | The President, the joint chiefs of staff, several different D.O.D members and some individuals from agencies you don't have the clearance to know about sat in the situation room in various states of shock and disbelief. After several awkward, quiet minutes, the President cleared his throat and began to speak.
"...Well... | 2016-01-29T06:58:52 | 2016-01-29T06:30:49 | 140 | 10 |
[WP] You make arrangements to cryogenically freeze your brain at the age of 31 in hopes of being revived in the future. Many years later, you "wake up." | I was floating happily in cryogenic goo when the noises began. A scraping metallic sound, faint and then general hubbub gradually overtaking the sonic landscape inside my mind's eye. I became aware of activity around me - nervous coughing, shuffling of papers, an occasional electronic beep from a distance. My auditory ... | A bright, jarring beam of light was shining in his face. Max woke up, startled. He heard screeching sound, and then a loud thud. As his eyes adjusted to light, he saw that the glass wall in front of his face was broken. He pushed it aside and stifled a scream.
He was in a half-destroyed dusty room. He remembered it be... | 2015-09-13T22:31:35 | 2015-09-13T21:42:12 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | The chain was chafing again. It wasn't really a big deal, but after four hundred years it was the little things that got you. The best food, staring at the most beautiful women and immortality. It wasn't a bad life, but the chains that attached my neck to that of the most powerful kings that had ever lived was getting ... | Humans.. so absolutely delightful. Their fears, so handsomely written across the pages of their faces. Painful portraits pristinely polished to... *Perfection.*
Bashful Bastards Boasting Battered Broads. Cantankerous *Cards* Crawling Carefully Clasping Coat-tails. Dangerous Deeds Deserve.. Dashing *Deaths*. And I smil... | 2017-05-13T06:16:05 | 2017-05-13T06:03:50 | 259 | 26 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | The summons for Lucia Farrowstone came, as they always did, a pinch too late and a tad too cryptically.
“Harperston,” the parchment read, “North by northeast, two hundred miles. Forty-eight hours before situation becomes untenable. No others available, you’re on your own.”
Having served its purpose, the parchment sl... | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out. Hey! Are you even listening!?"
I snapped my gaze back toward the old woman. She had caught me staring out the window. "Yes Ms. J... | 2017-02-22T10:14:57 | 2017-02-22T07:48:38 | 899 | 614 |
[WP] The Sith feel a disturbance in the force unlike anything they have encountered. A consolidation of pure rage and anger in a single entity- The Hulk has entered the Galaxy.
Inspired from a comment on r/FanTheories. Would the Sith try to recruit the Hulk? Or would they fear him? | Lord Anarosh strode purposefully and swiftly through the halls of the Indomitable. Various concerned Imperials ran past her, giving the Sith a wide berth as they performed their duties. She in turn paid them no heed whatsoever, dark robes swishing about her armored boots. Though she outwardly showed nothing but calm... | Darth Plagueis opened himself up to the flow of information the force offered, his body descending the stairs of his ship on pure muscle memory. The rocky, near-deserted planet was a world, no, *worlds* away from the sophistication of Coruscant but it was here on the outlying edges of the galaxy that he felt truly invi... | 2014-07-22T20:25:25 | 2014-07-22T19:19:57 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | Journal entry, January 8th, 2189: I've been commissioned to investigate the strange phenomenon of everyone receiving the same death date of December 31st, 2199.
Its an occurrence that has happened for most between 2150-2189. It was noted in records as early as 2120, but surviving from 2120 to 2199 was seen as quite a ... | The virtually non-existent yet sternly constant flow of beeps,buzzers,and all kinds of sounds each coming from some gadget worth more than twice Jake's salary nearly took him to sleep as he forced himself to stand "You cannot dose off; you worked so hard to get here and i wont let you blow it!" he repeated to hims... | 2017-12-25T14:18:47 | 2017-12-25T14:14:17 | 1,727 | 13 |
[WP] One sundaymorning everyone wakes up with the worst crime they've ever committed tattooed on their forehead. It's breaking news on television. Yours says 'thief', your husband's says 'cheater'. As you go wake up your seven year old daughter, you see the word 'murderer' tattooed on her forehead.
[removed] | I could live with the killer tattoo across my forehead. I knew what I signed up for, five tours of duty in an infantry unit and I knew when I woke up what my sin would be.
My wife had adultery across hers, I already knew. She confessed after my last tour, said she would understand if I didn’t want her in my life any m... | July 22, 2143 was an interesting day. That was the day God, aliens, the Illuminati or some other higher being decided to put our sins on display. Everyone around the world got a "tattoo". Some group of scientist, who all had Torture on thier forehead learned that it was actually you skin pigment permanently damage and ... | 2019-09-16T12:24:24 | 2019-09-16T11:27:41 | 145 | 17 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | "Wait wait let me get this straight. What do you mean your average at rocket science and neurosurgery?"
"Yep", Ambrose replied nonchalantly. "Pass me the screwdriver" as he busily fiddled with the car engine.
"Right, that should about do it. Your plumbing needs fixing as well right? I'm pretty average at that as we... | Anthony Vander Ghal was considered funny, but not hysterical. A nice guy to be around, but not all the time. He drove to work in a 2011 Golf, it had a few war wounds and erroneous knocking sounds - that sounded like an actual golf ball loose in the back - but it served its purpose. He parked in the same spot as he had ... | 2018-10-24T07:25:40 | 2018-10-24T07:20:17 | 680 | 177 |
[WP] You've kept an aquarium full of tiny fish since you were a kid. Twenty years and many generations of fish later, you can't help but notice that they have started showing signs of regarding you as their deity. | The Book of Hippotang
C. 1
1. The Almighty Devon shall rejoice in those who turn to Him alone. 2. Behold, it is He who resides beyond the firmament. 3. “Turn,” He exclaims, “Turn to me thou fishes, that I may see thee.” 4. I, Trouty the Blue Hippotang, was taken on a journey beyond the firmament into the realm of our... | Ignorance is Fish
In and out, up and down, through the caves, weaving among the fake seagrass and up to the surface for their evening meals they swim tirelessly. They jet across the aquarium with a purpose at the sight of her shadow. She watches the colorful creatures mindlessly following the same patterns day in and ... | 2019-09-24T23:39:10 | 2019-09-24T23:21:35 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] There's a girl who knocks on your door at exactly 9pm on every full moon, expecting sweets. It's been more than ten years and she's never aged a day. | The gentle tapping echoed through the house. It had freaked me out when I first moved here, but by now I was used to it. Making sure the front and back doors were locked, I headed to the living room. When I bought the house I had tried to question the realtor about the tiny door in the wall. They looked at me like I gr... | Their ritual always begins without much ado.
A knock at the door. Once, twice, rarely thrice. Nolan has grown to anticipate her the way one expects a bite when placed between a waiting set of jaws.
She hasn't changed much over the years—which is, of course, a nice way of saying that she hasn't changed at all. But it ... | 2022-06-25T13:20:24 | 2022-06-25T13:09:26 | 1,242 | 291 |
[WP] A great Empire is about to fall. A single remaining bodyguard is left alone with the Emperor as the enemy approaches the throne room. | Cocooned in his survival suit, a solitary scientist focused the camera lens on his life's work. A deep sadness penetrated his objective training, coupled with a sense of shame. Barely a stone's throw from where his Zodiac's inflatable hull was tethered to the iceberg, a handful of Emperor penguins stubbornly occupied... | The old emperor sat on the throne, his head in his hands. Before him was his once vibrant throne room, now a stone cold chamber. The courtiers had fled, his loyal guards had died or, worst of all, defected. He did not despise his future killers, the nobles he once called his friends. They have reason to rebel, and the ... | 2014-05-29T17:29:31 | 2014-05-29T13:47:10 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The first one is supposed to be twenty words long, ten have gone already, Jesus this is gonna be hard. Okay, I have nineteen left to go, not too bad, shit, ten already, I better start saying something productive. On the other hand, writing is hard in and of itself without these constraints, what is OP thinking? Who on ... | I still don't know to this day whether we were more confused over the other, or god's sudden, fatal disappearance.
Usually we'd skip church and get stoned in the gutter between the parking lot and the stretch of weeds. We'd drink whatever he could sneak from the cupboards of whoever it was he was staying with that wee... | 2017-01-14T15:16:53 | 2017-01-14T15:12:58 | 946 | 279 |
[WP] It turns out demon summoning is only bad when you do it for selfish motives. You discovered this as you, absent any other options, decided to summon one in order to have someone watch over your dog. | *"What would you do with infinite power?"*
My father asked me this once. After 11 years of the harshest possible boarding school. I was back at home for 4 weeks before returning for my final year. To my dying day I regret telling him "make my friends and family happy."
He was enraged beyond belief. He destroyed my mo... | "So for payments do I give my soul or something" a the older man looked over and by relieved he did not summon a demon he did expect a high price only wanted dog sitting for the weekend. Surely she does not want his soul.
"Honestly, I do not want your soul you took your your dog was more than a treasure for me ... | 2022-11-09T05:21:54 | 2022-11-09T04:06:32 | 516 | 23 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I don't believe in stats. I never have. I mean sure, I believe that the government hands all new parents an official "Succinct Test Assessing Tendencies" packet, but I've never let anyone else define me. My path is of my own making, and I have only myself to blame for my current situation.
It really is frustrating. Pe... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:05:47 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 120 | 26 |
[WP] To your surprise, a SWAT team breaks down your door, rushes inside, and surrounds you. Only, their backs are to you, guns trained on the doors and windows. The closest one whispers, "Here they come." | The first shots destroyed my bedroom window. I was surrounded by the black of Kevlar and gun metal. The smell of hot copper stung my nose. I instinctively fell to the ground and frantically squirmed under my bed. I couldn't see any more than black boots around my bed and I couldn't hear more than yells and rapid gunfir... | I sat in my lab flipping through my journal. The hum of my sunlamps filling the unnaturally quiet evening. I had taken quite a liking to my new found hobby, my love of plants had finally manifested to something worth while. I looked over at my newest plant and took notes on the development. "Two days and already at mat... | 2017-06-28T09:44:48 | 2017-06-28T09:37:14 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] All the world leaders have a groupchat. One day you accidentally get added. | \[Alex Bishop has joined the conversation\]
Macron: Hey, who is this, did someone else become a world leader without anyone else realising?
Theresa: Could be another Australian prime minister?
Merkel: No, I believe the Australian prime ministers name was Scott Marston.
~~Malcolm~~ Scott:…...Morrison.
Merkel: W... | I prepared myself a coffee, even went down to the store despite the awful cold weather and bought some cookies. This will be a long a night. All those secrets. Maybe I can even write a blog post about this and get famous. I'm still pondering about that though, I don't know if it's wise to mess with all world leaders. ... | 2018-12-04T14:27:24 | 2018-12-04T14:27:00 | 186 | 37 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Facebook
Tumbler
Spanish Inquisition
Google Translate
Jobs in Appleton, WI
*Clear History*
Calc chat
Facebook
Best way to hide bruises
*Clear History*
Cheap Bus tickets
Cheap apartments Appleton WI
Emancipated Minor?
*Clear History*
Gmail
Tumblr
Counseling confidentiality rules for minors
Free Counseli... | Why is the sky blue?
How far away is Uranus?
Why do mom and dad fight so much?
How to impress girls
Porn
Good date ideas
Porn
Where can I get the morning after pill?
How do I know when I should propose?
Good proposal ideas?
Cheap engagement rings
How to be a good parent
How to tell your parents they're gran... | 2015-02-04T16:52:51 | 2015-02-04T16:12:00 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] Your daughter is one of the most legendary sword fighters of all time, but you could never hold a sword to save your life. Despite this, she always cited you as her inspiration. Today you find out why. | I'd never been more proud. My little girl. Fencing in the championship. Her next bout would determine whether she or her opponent was hailed as swordswoman supreme, by the Royal Ladies' Academy of Blades. It didn't matter so much to me, I thought just making it this far was a remarkable achievement. How many other youn... | Cornelia absorbs a blow with her shield, but its force makes her stumble backward. Her opponent presses the advantage, raising her broadsword high in the sky.
You recoil, watching the fight through squinted eyes. Cornelia has always had trouble against broadswords, even as a little girl.
With a roar and a snarl, t... | 2022-04-14T15:06:48 | 2022-04-14T14:58:27 | 198 | 12 |
[WP] You're a common goblin who has, against all odds, slain the hero of the story. | Hero jump high. Hero jump far. Hero lead Crusade. Hero armor shiny. Hero crash into goblin and kobolds, orcs and ogres. Into Horde. Bright flash of light. Gold moons fly out from Hero sword, slice through many. See Hero grab ogre and toss in air with one hand. Pain. Fear behind. Warlords whip Horde forward. ... | Of course, I’ll never tell of how the hero defeated the giant mountain dragon, letting it fall to its death, that left him weakened. Of course, I’ll never tell of how his final breath was drawn before I let the spear the impaled his chest loose from my hand while hiding behind the cover of the trees. That is not a hero... | 2016-07-15T11:00:40 | 2016-07-15T10:37:41 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] For most of college everyone thought you were deaf when in reality you just don't like talking and learned sign language at a young age. You never corrected anyone until someone confessed their love for you, thinking you couldn't hear them. | It had been an accident. Honestly. First semester here, I had just been zoned out in class, hardly paying enough attention to know when to turn the page. Apparently, the teacher had called on me half a dozen times before the girl sitting next to me finally tapped my shoulder. I just kind of, started signing. The profes... | What do I say?
Do I say anything?
I just finished my powerpoint presentation, in lieu of a speech, a request that was granted by my public speaking professor. My topic was surrealism and after closing with a slide featuring Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Time", the bell rang and it was time to head across campus... | 2020-12-01T18:23:03 | 2020-12-01T17:46:27 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] Two Serial Killers Go on a Date, and are Unaware of Each Other's Motives | Blonde hair, hazel eyes, slim build...everything about this girl excites me. She is everything I look for in a woman. New to the city, hasn't yet made too many connections, a chance like this is a godsend.
“More wine?”
She gladly accepts. She idly stabs at her lamp chop, girl has no idea what she's doing to me. R... | As our steak arrived I realized this was all too easy. Normally I have to be convincing, charming even. If my steak simply walked into my mouth I wouldn't enjoy it as much. I savor knowing the agony the cow went through only to end up in my musculature. Amanda has hinted three times now that I need to see her art c... | 2013-12-30T18:59:46 | 2013-12-30T18:36:23 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | (Not exactly senile but I liked the idea of an aging hero and a young, sympathetic villain).
Lightning crackled as a bolt screamed across the pavement, filling the air between the dock warehouses with a blinding blue flash. Tempest frowned as it struck Captain Tomorrow in the chest.
“You used to be faster…” He mumbl... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T07:07:03 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 17 | 10 |
[WP]Write a gritty and depressing story set in a cutesy and childlike environment, or do the reverse and write a childishly optimistic fairy tale set in a grim dystopia. | A cold wind blew on Ponytown.
The candybeans were in bloom, but all the color in the world couldn't crack the worn face of Mr. Buttercup. He leaned up against the back wall of the flowertorium, waiting for his contact to show. He chewed on his lollipop stick, it's sweet flavor long vanished, turned into the bitter gr... | GRITTY INTERPRETATION
All was well in the kingdom before Lord Licorice began plotting his takeover of Candyland. His machinations knew no end, even going so far as to steal King Kandy's own children and abandon them on the border of the realm. For weeks, their only company was a large, hairy creature whose fur was sta... | 2017-05-26T10:01:39 | 2017-05-26T08:45:27 | 70 | 15 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | Oh how much the world can change in just half a year. The great kingdoms of mankind reduced to quarries for the Dwarves to build their fortresses, the sacred groves and forests of the Elves nothing more than kindling for dwarven forges.
Noone knew just how it had begun, how this could have happened. Countless tongues ... | Libash was fishing. He loved to fish, even if other dwarfs would make fun of him for it. In the dwarven society many jobs were considered useless, but fishering work was considered one of the most. At least he did his job well, purging the life out of lakes and rivers in moments. He was able to feed the fortress for ce... | 2017-12-31T08:10:56 | 2017-12-31T07:55:00 | 100 | 12 |
[WP] You are a child, born into slavery via artificial insemination, in order to pay off your dead parents debt.
Upon death, if a debt is held and no heir exists to inherit it, the owner of the debt may have a child born with the DNA of the one in debt. The child is then required to work towards paying off the debt at... | Ever Corp's headquarters looked like a huge oblong, slightly more elongated along the western wall, where the plushy sales offices were. Not that any of the Ever bodies would know. Adam had spent most of his life in the other half of an Ever Corp facility; from creche to school to offices.
Debt in the thirties had rea... | Logan counted down the days to freedom. It was always the same. No one told him directly, but it was always the same. Once the debt was paid, you weren't terminated directly. That couldn't happen. The state wouldn't allow it. They had to take out the tracker to be used in some other slave. The explosives that would kil... | 2015-10-02T14:53:52 | 2015-10-02T14:43:01 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The world's smallest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | Luven followed the map his dad had given him. It wasn't very tidy nor detailed, but what he'd to find was clear as the sky above: a tiny cave hidden somewhere in their backyard.
And so, Luven started, wielding a wooden sword, and walking with the uncertainty of a child's first time venturing alone. His father cheered ... | No one ever expected to find me. Going about their lives, adventurers and rich seeking individuals alike would find their way into my lair. They would hear word of a great hoard, an unattainable treasure. This was my treasure.
As I lay on my hoard, eyes closed and breathing slow, I heard it. That oh so familiar sound... | 2018-10-24T15:23:49 | 2018-10-24T15:09:05 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | I know this will probably be deleted, but I have to say it anyway. If anybody is really interested in a fantastic movie similar to this concept, check out [The Man From Earth.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/) It really blew my mind the first time I saw it. | **PART ONE**
***
*High School students sit at wooden desks under fluorescent lighting on a fall day. They patiently await their new teacher, who unbeknownst to them, has been alive for just over half a millennia. A middle-aged man enters the room with a gruesomely noticeable scar that circles three quarters the circu... | 2015-04-14T18:17:41 | 2015-04-14T14:32:31 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You have just returned to your camp after being bitten by a zombie to say your goodbyes. You are surprised to find the national guard giving your friends a vaccine. The world is saved. However, the vaccine only works on the healthy. You lost at the endgame and these your last 24 hours. | It doesn't hurt. I thought it would.
It's a novocaine sensation. I think of my arm being made of that foam stuff inside car seats. That's what it feels like.
The rotter was wounded. I was careless. The bite was fast, took a piece of me. It was over before I knew it had happened. I blew the rotter's face off and left ... | Everyone believes that they are special.
That they are unique, smarter, stronger, superior.
Perhaps that is why humans fear equality. It represents the single fact that we all suppress: that we aren’t the best; that we are replaceable; that we have no purpose.
So I shut out equality.
I had to believe I was better, ... | 2018-07-29T21:47:11 | 2018-07-29T19:39:29 | 47 | 15 |
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